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Monthly Blog/Vlog Posts Recording reality as a Cameroonian woman, Writer, Academic, Advocate, and Believer

Monique's Musings

January 24, 2017

The Silent Majority

August of this year shall make five years of my blogging here on Musings. It was in August of 2012 during a trip to Nigeria for […]
December 17, 2016

Imagining My President’s New Year Message- A Christmas Wish

I have been unable to do any real writing for weeks now. Between losing several friends and experiencing a peaceful strike turn into a brutal scary […]
November 1, 2016

An Ode to Those We’ve Lost

Last month I visited the United States briefly. After having spent almost seven years of my childhood there and returning home to Cameroon indefinitely, this trip […]
August 25, 2016

My ‘Returnee Anniversary’: 15 Reasons I Love My Country

The day was 25thAugust 2001. I was less than three months shy of 12 years old, or as I often reminded people- I was a pre-teen. […]
February 12, 2016

What Day? What Are We Celebrating?

Hey Everyone!Halfway through the second month! How’s 2016 treating you so far? Well, in 2013 I founded a youth development association called Better Breed Cameroon, and […]
January 8, 2016

Yet another New Year Speech and a Proposed New Year Resolution

Happy New Year Readers! Hope you had a lovely holiday season. And what were the resolutions? I hope you made some because we Cameroonians desperately need […]
August 27, 2015

Returning Home I: Redefining Patriotism

I’m going home!!! Just in case you missed the excitement, let me repeat myself: I’M GOING HOME!  *Insert wide smile here* Then here, insert a wobbly […]
February 8, 2015

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Somehow, somewhere along the line of modern history February became the month of love. My musings are going with the trend. I was taught the different […]
July 25, 2014

What We Should Be Investigating…

    As of the 12thof June, the World Cup kept football fans internationally enthralled. To say some people take their football as seriously as an HIV […]
May 22, 2014

The Laudable Series Pt. 1: Bloggers

         When it comes to our own; our country, bodies, opportunities we often dwell on the negatives more than the positive but it is a known […]
March 11, 2014

Musings On Women’s Day

Happy Women’s month!  May we observe the month wisely. In my own little contribution towards the rightful honoring of this month I’m going to share my […]
December 15, 2013

Coming Home

   There is a long standing joke that about Cameroonians who leave the country dusting literally dusting their hands off it and till when they die, […]